Process Watch widget for Windows
Top Processes shows whoever is busiest; Process Watch follows the ones you name. Type a few process names (chrome, premiere, discord), with or without .exe and in any case, or use a wildcard like *premiere* to catch every version. Each one gets its own box, and the boxes arrange themselves in a row, a column or a grid to fit the tile. A box shows the name, how many copies are running (×12), a green or red light for running or not, CPU as a share of the whole machine and RAM as a block meter with green, orange and red zones, a small line graph of CPU, RAM or both, and two rows of history ticks. Every check adds a tick coloured by your thresholds, grey when the app is not running, so you can see at a glance how the last 5 to 100 checks went. A close button sits on each box (click twice to confirm, unless you turn that off).
Free · Windows 10 and 11 · No account required
The real Process Watch widget, running live. Drag it around.
What Process Watch is good for
The everyday jobs this widget was built to handle.
Find out when an overnight render or export finishes, without staying up to check
Catch a game, browser or chat app slowly eating memory before it slows everything down
Confirm that a backup tool, sync client or server is still running, and see when it stopped
Checks run every 2 seconds up to every 5 minutes, and they keep going in the background, so the history and the alerts carry on while the dashboard is hidden. That makes it a good overnight babysitter: give a process a rule like "CPU below 2% for 5 checks" and you hear a sound and get a desktop notification when the render or export has finished, or use "RAM above 4 GB for 3 checks" to catch a leak. An alert fires once, the box shows a bell, and clicking the bell re-arms it. The colours start at 25% and 50% for CPU and 2 GB and 4 GB for RAM, and you can change them.
Every Process Watch setting
15 options, set per widget - so two copies of Process Watch on the same dashboard can behave completely differently. Highlighted values are the defaults.
Processes
Any value you like
Refresh seconds
History length
Any number · starts at 20
Graph
Show numbers
Meter blocks
CPU warn
Any number · starts at 25
CPU crit
Any number · starts at 50
Ram unit
Ram warn
Any number · starts at 2
Ram crit
Any number · starts at 4
Alert rules
Any value you like
Alert sound
Advanced
Confirm kill
Show instance count
Getting Process Watch on your desktop
- 01
Install
Download and run the installer. No account, no sign-in.
- 02
Add the widget
Hit Add Widget, or press Ctrl+K and search for it by name.
- 03
Make it yours
Drag it where you want, resize it, and set the options below.
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